�I fucking stink. I smell like Honky laundry.�
That was pretty much the first thing Sasquatch bassist Clayton Charles said to me. I can remember this clearly almost four months after the fact because he did indeed stink. The Los Angeles-based band was at Mad Oak Studios in Boston, Massachusetts recording their sophomore album last December, and they weren�t fucking around. The band � Clayton, guitarist/vocalist Keith Gibbs, and drummer Rick Ferrante � and producer Craig Riggs (Antler, Roadsaw) had one weekend to nail down nine songs, so trivial things like personal hygiene fell by the wayside.
But based on what I heard, it was a worthy sacrifice. While their self-titled debut was a compilation of songs written since the band formed in 2001, the new album (tentatively titled II) reflects a band that�s become a strong power trio, one that�s played their collective ass off night after night. Sasquatch takes a love of classic rock � AC/DC, Cactus, Uriah Heep, among others � and shellacs it with a thick coating of fuzz�d out distortion. The grooves are tighter, the hooks are sharper than ever, and it�s shaping up to be one of the best rock albums of 2006.
Unfortunately, thanks to the medicinal marijuana Keith passed around, a good number of the shots I took wound up as blurry as my vision. What you get here are the best of the lot.
Sasquatch
Recording at Mad Oak Studios
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